The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAIKevin Scott, Microsoft’s chief technology officer, says of releasing A.I. software, “You have to experiment in public.”Illustration by Todd St. John At around 11:30 a.m. on the Friday before Thanksgiving, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, was having his weekly meeting with senior leaders when a panicked colleague told him to pick up the phone. An executive from OpenAI, an artificial-inte
